This is the email I sent to Cirque du Soleil this morning:

I saw “Varekai” last night and there are two things that really spoiled my experience:
1. We sat in section 104, seat 10&11 in row C. This ticket is completely overprized, as the show is designed to be seen frontally. All the (admittedly amazing) artists were best seen from a “6 o’clock” position. We sat at “3 o’clock” and the missing applause from our section was indication that not only we felt that way, (especially the act with the 4 trapeze ladies, of which we only ever saw two). A group of six or seven people sitting in front of us had even left at half time break and didn’t come back.
I wish I had bought a cheap ticket and sat in the back of the “5 – 7 o’clock” section, between entrances 1 and 2.
The seats and view we had were certainly not worth category one price.

2. Loads of people brought in their food and drink, so the signs at each entrance were completely useless. Maybe it’s the culture in Holland, but you NEED to TELL THEM that you mean it when you say “no mobile phones”. My neighbour (who was 20 minutes late to the show but was still allowed in, despite the warnings on the website) was TEXTING on his mobile phone throughout the show, which was completely distracting.

The tickets were my birthday present this year, and I am quite sad that my first experience of Cirque du Soleil will most probably be my last. Maybe my expectations were simply too high.